Capstone vs Ghidra
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About Capstone
Capstone is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework. It provides a clean, simple API to disassemble binary code into human-readable assembly for x86 (16/32/64-bit), ARM, ARM64, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, SystemZ, XCore, M68K, TMS320C64x, M680x, and EVM architectures. Capstone is the disassembly engine embedded in many major security tools including Ghidra, radare2/rizin, Cutter, Binary Ninja, and dozens of others. Its design emphasizes thread safety, zero external dependencies, and rich detail extraction - each disassembled instruction includes operand details, register access information, and instruction groups. Bindings are available for Python, Java, Go, Ruby, Rust, OCaml, and many other languages, making it the standard building block for custom disassembly and binary analysis tools.
About Ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created and maintained by the National Security Agency Research Directorate. It includes a full-featured suite of high-end software analysis tools for analyzing compiled code across a variety of platforms. Capabilities include disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting, along with hundreds of other features. Ghidra supports a wide range of processor instruction sets and executable formats, and users can extend it through plugins and scripts written in Java or Python.
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